Tales from the Dark Age: The Rising Sun
If you really want to disprove the theory of the Dark Age Animation, just look…
Tales from the Dark Age: Euro-Oddities
The fall of the major studios’ effect on Hollywood animation is clear enough, but it’s…
Tales from the Dark Age: More Shorts
We’ll get to the enormous influence of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? by the end of…
Tales from the Dark Age: Short Stuff
The Golden Age of Hollywood Animation lines up neatly with the Golden Age of Hollywood…
Birth of the Cool: Persia on Unadaptable AKIRA
Akira starts today. Released on July 16, 1988, the movie begins with what looks like…
Lunch Links: AN EYEFUL OF SOUND
An Eyeful of Sound (2010) dir. Samantha Moore “I don’t know if you’ve ever heard…
Year of the Month: Aaron Clausen on THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER
The Brave Little Toaster isn’t how I remembered it. Jerry Rees’ 1987 animated musical adventure…
Disney Byways: “Destino”
One of the strangest sentences you’re going to find on IMDb is “the friendship between…
Year of the Month: KING KONG
By all accounts, King Kong should not be a good movie, let alone one of…
Selected Shorts: THE SNOWMAN
Not every studio was as adept at melding cartoon silliness with sheer terror as Disney…